Broader Confederate States wrote:

Gandoor wrote:Not a cliché, but does anyone else remember Cybernations? NationStates' so-called 'rival' in the whole 'web-based political simulation game' from back in the day?

I remember it from trying to find a different political simulator that I remember playing one time like... 7 years ago. Actually, that search is what brought me here.

I actually played it back in the day but, uh, let's just say there's a reason I've stuck with this game for nearly 14 years and not Cybernations (and that reason is not 'because Cybernations, while technically still alive, is basically a corpse of a game nowadays from what I've seen')

Red Lake Circle wrote:

Frisemark wrote:
Manchildren and their consequences have been a disaster for the human race

I feel like a lot of people take RP way too seriously? Which is part of what's made me hesitant to try and do more than send a volunteer regiment to one dude one time? And even then I got hit with a "this is MT" even though that wasn't ever made clear?

SPEAKING OF VOLUNTEER REGIMENTS! That reminds me.

You guys want a real NS cliche?

People spending hilariously oversized volunteer or peacekeeping forces into civil wars or violent conflicts in an RP, with no realistic way of keeping a constant supply line nor way of transporting that many people that far away in that short of a timeframe. Like "I send ten thousand infantry and 5 gorillion tanks all with support personnel into this low-intensity conflict that was started because some dude didn't return his neighbor's camel"

Actually, no. Because the people that do this never mention support personnel. They literally just send grunts with no mention of any sort of logistics lmao.

Military RPs are always a clusterfuck.

Red Lake Circle wrote:

Frisemark wrote:
SPEAKING OF VOLUNTEER REGIMENTS! That reminds me.

You guys want a real NS cliche?

People spending hilariously oversized volunteer or peacekeeping forces into civil wars or violent conflicts in an RP, with no realistic way of keeping a constant supply line nor way of transporting that many people that far away in that short of a timeframe.

"Uh, yeah, so my volunteer regiment is 20,000 men strong and they're all equipped with anti-materiel rifles. Completely accurate and fair."

"Not to mention that they're based out of ???? and eat a constantly supply of ???? and are being coordinated by ????"

News via TVDG: Navy intercepts 400kg of NZ gang heroin off D'Urville coast | Govt-owned National Bank to absorb SSB in $550bn deal | Drongonians hit hard as petrol reaches $2/L

Drongonia wrote:

Red Lake Circle wrote:"Uh, yeah, so my volunteer regiment is 20,000 men strong and they're all equipped with anti-materiel rifles. Completely accurate and fair."

"Not to mention that they're based out of ???? and eat a constantly supply of ???? and are being coordinated by ????"

See, that's why you hire PMCs, they're much easier to keep supplied because they run entirely on the blood of Iraqi children.

NS Cliche that I'm pretty sure we've discussed before -

People starting indexes and surveys/questionnaires and then just leaving them do die on the vine. I'm falling victim to it myself. I'm just taking a quick break from marking the International Freedom Index entries from June last year. UGH

News via TVDG: Navy intercepts 400kg of NZ gang heroin off D'Urville coast | Govt-owned National Bank to absorb SSB in $550bn deal | Drongonians hit hard as petrol reaches $2/L

Frisemark wrote:

Red Lake Circle wrote:I feel like a lot of people take RP way too seriously? Which is part of what's made me hesitant to try and do more than send a volunteer regiment to one dude one time? And even then I got hit with a "this is MT" even though that wasn't ever made clear?

SPEAKING OF VOLUNTEER REGIMENTS! That reminds me.

You guys want a real NS cliche?

People spending hilariously oversized volunteer or peacekeeping forces into civil wars or violent conflicts in an RP, with no realistic way of keeping a constant supply line nor way of transporting that many people that far away in that short of a timeframe. Like "I send ten thousand infantry and 5 gorillion tanks all with support personnel into this low-intensity conflict that was started because some dude didn't return his neighbor's camel"

Actually, no. Because the people that do this never mention support personnel. They literally just send grunts with no mention of any sort of logistics lmao.

Military RPs are always a clusterfuck.

Half the people are just FT superpowers with 500 morbillion troops ready to be expended against a modest army which is armed and trained. Another thing is when nations give themselves plot armor and just say "Johndoenia repels the attack from Janedonistan".
Another fucking frustrating thing is when the nations are just way too overpowered and somehow own half the world. It ruins the RP and is the main reason I try distancing myself from the recent summie-esque RPs created by overextended overpowered nations to just shit on the realistic modest militaries.

Friedrich Schonbrunn asks GDR to shove it

I'm going to create an RP out of spite.

Friedrich Schonbrunn asks GDR to shove it

Drongonia wrote:NS Cliche that I'm pretty sure we've discussed before -

People starting indexes and surveys/questionnaires and then just leaving them do die on the vine. I'm falling victim to it myself. I'm just taking a quick break from marking the International Freedom Index entries from June last year. UGH

In the same vein, embassy and Q&A threads.

 19 Jun 2022 

 ✉ TV1 News | ▶ ⬤──────── (01:00) | Headlines: PM reiterates commitment to building safety programme • Republic Alliance raises possibility of alliance with Greens | Y Dydd: Heddlî yn rhybîddio am alwadaî-sgam banc | Weather: Liskerry ☀ 23° • Altas ⛅ 14° • Esterpine ☀ 20° • Naltgybal ☔ 18° • Ceirtryn ⛅ 22° • Bynscel ☔ 15° • Lyteel ☁ 11° | Traffic: Resurfacing: 2 lanes closed on B209 northbound; 15 minutes delay

NS Cliche: Writer's block on factbooks

Also I tried out the foe list feature, and that the user I put as my foe (note I removed them from the list, it was experimental) had none of their posts visible to me (so contrary to what I thought, it ain't like discord where you can manually see individual posts) so I wonder how many ninjas occur as a result of certain nations responding to the AAN because the AN was on their foe's list

NS Stats not canon

Perikuresu wrote:Also I tried out the foe list feature, and that the user I put as my foe (note I removed them from the list, it was experimental) had none of their posts visible to me (so contrary to what I thought, it ain't like discord where you can manually see individual posts)

???

That is literally how the NS foe feature works.

Gandoor wrote:

Perikuresu wrote:Also I tried out the foe list feature, and that the user I put as my foe (note I removed them from the list, it was experimental) had none of their posts visible to me (so contrary to what I thought, it ain't like discord where you can manually see individual posts)

???

That is literally how the NS foe feature works.

I don't understand how the friend feature works tho.

Meadowfields wrote:

Gandoor wrote:???

That is literally how the NS foe feature works.

I don't understand how the friend feature works tho.

It doesn't.

Gandoor wrote:

Meadowfields wrote:I don't understand how the friend feature works tho.

It doesn't.

Oh. Then why is it there?

Gandoor wrote:

Meadowfields wrote:I don't understand how the friend feature works tho.

It doesn't.

gladly said from someone who isn't friendly

this is a joke on how you come off as grumpy most of the time don't bazooka my ass

NS Stats not canon

Meadowfields wrote:

Gandoor wrote:It doesn't.

Oh. Then why is it there?

It's just a built-in feature of the phpBB software, they can't remove it.

Gandoor wrote:Not a cliché, but does anyone else remember Cybernations? NationStates' so-called 'rival' in the whole 'web-based political simulation game' from back in the day?

Yeah I had an account but the game got boring and so I deleted it.

Gandoor wrote:

Meadowfields wrote:Oh. Then why is it there?

It's just a built-in feature of the phpBB software, they can't remove it.

If it's a built-in feature, then why doesn't it work?

Gandoor wrote:

Meadowfields wrote:I don't understand how the friend feature works tho.

It doesn't.

At this rate, it's basically the dossier function, except it's forumside.

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Perikuresu wrote:NS Cliche: Writer's block on factbooks

I'm certain that's already been raised multiple times here.

 19 Jun 2022 

 ✉ TV1 News | ▶ ⬤──────── (01:00) | Headlines: PM reiterates commitment to building safety programme • Republic Alliance raises possibility of alliance with Greens | Y Dydd: Heddlî yn rhybîddio am alwadaî-sgam banc | Weather: Liskerry ☀ 23° • Altas ⛅ 14° • Esterpine ☀ 20° • Naltgybal ☔ 18° • Ceirtryn ⛅ 22° • Bynscel ☔ 15° • Lyteel ☁ 11° | Traffic: Resurfacing: 2 lanes closed on B209 northbound; 15 minutes delay

-Astoria- wrote:

Gandoor wrote:It doesn't.

At this rate, it's basically the dossier function, except it's forumside.

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Perikuresu wrote:NS Cliche: Writer's block on factbooks

I'm certain that's already been raised multiple times here.

New cliché: Not spelling it with an accent :angry: /jk

Meadowfields wrote:

-Astoria- wrote:At this rate, it's basically the dossier function, except it's forumside.

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I'm certain that's already been raised multiple times here.

New cliché: Not spelling it with an accent :angry: /jk

cliche: people being not happy with people not spelling cliche with accent

NEWS (22 MARCH 2003): Operation Positive Iraqi Freedom underway, Karazicu to remain neutral; Insurgent Removal Act instated and active; Mostas reconcentration relocation center to be established; Multiple suspected insurgents killed in gunfight with CZ officers

Meadowfields wrote:

Gandoor wrote:It's just a built-in feature of the phpBB software, they can't remove it.

If it's a built-in feature, then why doesn't it work?

To put it simply: because the NS admin team never implemented one of the features of the phpBB friend list into the styles used for the forum (and the other is because of the separation between the forum and game).

Even when implemented properly, the friends list on phpBB is extremely simple and just highlights posts of users you have added, if the forum style you're using supports that feature (obviously meant to contrast with how it hides posts from your foes) and the PM feature built-in to phpBB allows the usage of the friends and foes list to filter your private messages (so you could only allow PMs from people on your friend list, for examples)

Obviously the NS admins never implemented the 'highlight your friends posts' feature into the styles used for these forums and, well, the telegram feature is gameside and completely unrelated to the forums, so the whole 'you can use your friends/foes list as a PM filter' thing isn't a feature either.

Karazicu wrote:

Meadowfields wrote:New cliché: Not spelling it with an accent :angry: /jk

cliche: people being not happy with people not spelling cliche with accent

Cliché: People ignoring /s or /jk

I have to spell cliché with the accent because my spellchecker says it's wrong otherwise.